Yeshivat Hakotel denies all five counts of indecent assault, and indecent assault by force made against him.
Photo: Ariel Jerozolimski Rabbi Mordechai Elon denied all five counts made against him of indecent assault and indecent assault by force in the Jerusalem District Court on Sunday.
Elon, who was a leader in the national-religious community and former dean of Yeshivat Hakotel in Jerusalem, was charged in October with inappropriately touching, kissing and stroking a 17-year old student in 2003 after a friend of his, who had also been a student of Elon’s, was killed in a car ...

Takana, the group that published allegations against Rabbi Mordechai Elon of sexually exploiting his students, said it did so because of "a long-term relationship that was clearly of a sexual nature." Elon Wednesday began to form a defense team to deal with the allegations and the possibility of criminal proceedings resulting from them.
Meanwhile, Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein, a leading figure in religious Zionist circles, and a member of Takana, a group that seeks to root out sexual exploitation by authority figures in the Orthodox community, said a relative of Elon's had threatened his ...

MK Binyamin Elon is suffering from throat cancer, but said Tuesday that he intends to continue campaigning for his National Union party and to triumph over the disease. "A biopsy after surgery on [a growth] on the vocal cords showed that malignant [tissue] remained, and I am receiving radiation treatments to treat this," Elon said Tuesday. "All of the physicians are promising that this is localized and that, with G-d's help, after this, my voice and everything will be all right." The cancer was diagnosed when his natural hoarseness became extreme, Elon said. Doctors said the tumor had been ...